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The Global 19th Century Workshop at UCR invites you to a talk by Dorian Bell, Associate Professor in the Literature Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Date: Thursday, April 14 Time: 1:00 – 2:30 Location: HMNSS 2412 Title: Axes of Otherness: Jews, Imperial Capitalism, and the Politics of Scale This paper reconsiders the [...]

Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program's series on Muslim- Christian Encounters & the Global Nineteenth Century Workshop at UCR present: Professor Nile Green (UCLA), Europe's First Muslim Students: Six Iranians in the Scientific Revolution Nile Green is Professor of History at UCLA and founding Director of the UCLA Program on Central Asia. His many books [...]

The Making of the Modern Homosexual: The Queer Life of George Ives Brian Lewis, Professor of History at McGill University, Montreal Date: May 5th. Time: 2:30pm. Place: INTS 1111 (CHASS Interdisciplinary Building South) George Ives (1867-1950) was a writer and campaigner who is credited with founding the first "gay rights" organization in Britain in the [...]

Émile Zola’s Naturalist Screen and the Crisis of Narration The Global 19th Century workshop at UCR presents its first event of the year with Eddy Troy, PhD Candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages. Intervening in recent scholarship on the naturalist mode of description, this talk (which emerges from a larger dissertation [...]

Oscar Wilde, Anticolonial Decadence, and the Aesthetics of Leprosy The Global 19th Century workshop at UCR presents a talk with Mackenzie Gregg, Ph.D. candidate, English. Part of the Global 19th Century Download flyer All events are free and open to the public. For a complimentary parking permit, RSVP with your name and event title to [...]

Mobility and Labor: Eadweard Muybridge in Central America, C. 1875 The Global 19th Century workshop at UCR presents a talk with Robert Aguirre, Associate Professor of English, Wayne State University. Followed by a reception Part of the Global 19th Century Download flyer All events are free and open to the public. For a complimentary parking [...]

The Global Travel of Mixed-Race Jamaicans and Constructions of Identity Dan Livesay, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History Claremont McKenna College At the turn of the nineteenth century, small numbers of elite, mixed-race Jamaicans traveled to Britain, then on to India, and back to Britain again in order to improve their financial and social statuses. This [...]

The Global 19th Century Workshop at UCR is pleased to present a talk by Gretchen Schultz, Professor of French Studies at Brown University. Abstract: During the turbulent early 3rd Republic, a battle between wine and spirits served as proxy in the battle for a besieged French identity. As France recovered from the humiliating loss suffered [...]